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ORRIN LUCE, OF CORTLAND, NEW YORK? Letters Patent No. 83,647, dated November 3,1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRUlfTK-HINGES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To whom it y concern: hinge-bolt, cast upon the inner side of the wing a, and

Be it known that I, ORRINLUCE, of Gortland, in extending above it. the county of Cortland, and State of New York, have 0 is a projection from the wings I) t, working in the invented a .new and useful Improvement in Box or segment, and, when the trunk is closed, dropping into Trunk-Hinges and I do hereby declare that the fol-, the recess 0. lowing is a true and exactdescription of the construce is a knob or rest upon the inner surface of the tion and operation of the same, reference being had segment cl, against which the projections c in y catchto the accompanying drawings, making a part of this or rest as the hinge or trunk opens. This b is so specification, and in which a perspective view of the placed as to catch the point of 0 when the trunk-lid shall have-a little passed the perpendicular, and will there hold it, preventing the lid falling back too far, and'dispensing with any s rap. i This hinge being screwed to both the ends and back of the trunk at the corners, makes the corners stronger, both of the bottom and lid-portions of the trunk, and the hinges are less liable tostrain and split the wood than the ordinary hinge put on at points intermediate the corners. J

I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The construction and arrangement, herein described, of the parts a, s, b, t, g g, p, d, e, and c, for the purpose set forth.

This hinge is intended to he used or applied in the corners of the trunk, and screwed or fastened both to the end and back of the trunk, in the inside.

v a is a flap or wing of the lower part of the hinge, to be screwed on to the lower end piece of the. trunk.

is is another wing of the hinge, at right angles to a, and fastened to the back of the trunk. g g' being projections from a and b, and extending far enough to allow the hinge-bolt x, passing through them, to be about in a line with the outside surface of the trunk.

b t vare corresponding wingsor flaps, forming the upper part of the hinge, and attached to the upper ORRIN LUGE.

ends and back pieces of the trunk, with a projection, Witnesses: which works between "the projections g g, and CHAS. FOSTER, through which thehinge-bolt passes. O. M. CARR.

d is a segment of a circle, whose centre is at the We a A'Vm We oewy/fiew 

